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Rock Garden of Chandigarh
Rock Garden of Chandigarh (Nek Chand's Rock Garden): a 25–40 acre sculpture garden in Chandigarh, India, built from waste materials in secret by road inspector Nek Chand, inaugurated 1976, now a major heritage tourist site.
Rocky Mountain National Park
Rocky Mountain National Park, established January 26, 1915 in north-central Colorado, spans 415 square miles from 7,840 to 14,259 feet, with alpine tundra, Trail Ridge Road, reintroduced elk, and a timed entry reservation system.
Rodrigues Alves Park
Bosque Rodrigues Alves (Jardim Zoobotânico da Amazônia) is a 15-hectare urban Amazonian forest, botanical garden and zoo in central Belém, Pará, Brazil, inaugurated 25 August 1883, renamed in 1906 for President Rodrigues Alves, with 309 tree species and over 200,000 annual visitors.
Roe Deer Observation Center
Roe Deer Observation Center (제주 노루생태관찰원), a Jeju City ecological park opened August 3, 2007 in Bonggae-dong on Geochin Oreum, where about 220 wild roe deer roam 50 ha with a 2.6 km trail, feeding programs, and Korea's first live-mammal biotope conservation designation.
Rosario and San Bernardo Corals National Natural Park
Parque Nacional Natural Corales del Rosario y de San Bernardo (PNN CRSB), a Colombian Caribbean marine national park declared 6 June 1977 and expanded in 1996 to about 120,000 ha, protecting the Rosario and San Bernardo archipelago reefs, seagrass beds, and mangroves near Cartagena.
Rosarium
Розарій (rosarium, rose garden): a park or botanical-garden section for growing and exhibiting rose varieties. Largest in Ukraine is the 3.5 ha rosarium at the Hryshko National Botanical Garden, Kyiv, a national heritage object since 2006.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway: 1.5-mile linear park in downtown Boston created atop the Big Dig tunnels after the elevated Central Artery was removed; managed since 2008 by the nonprofit Greenway Conservancy, with fountains, carousel, public art, and food trucks.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), founded 1670 as a physic garden by Balfour and Sibbald, is a Scottish scientific institution and botanic garden with four gardens, 13,500 species, a 3-million-specimen herbarium, and the Edinburgh Biomes restoration.
Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney
Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney: opened 1816 on Gadigal land at Farm Cove, Australia's oldest scientific institution, a 74-acre free harbour-side garden with 5,000+ species, the National Herbarium of NSW, and active plant conservation science.
Royal Botanic Gardens (Trinidad and Tobago)
Royal Botanic Gardens of Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain botanic garden founded 1818 by Governor Sir Ralph Woodford with superintendent David Lockhart; about 25 hectares, 700 trees, linked to Kew, origin of the National Herbarium.
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, also known as Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, is a botanic gardens organization operating gardens at Melbourne and Cranbourne, with Melbourne Gardens established in 1846.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Kew Gardens) is a London botanic garden and plant science institution founded in 1759 by Princess Augusta, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2003, with over 50,000 living plants and the Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst.
Royal Botanical Garden of Mexico
The Royal Botanical Garden of Mexico (Real Jardín Botánico de México) was a colonial scientific institution founded in Mexico City in 1788 to teach Linnaean botany.
Royal Botanical Gardens (Ontario)
The Royal Botanical Gardens (RBG) is Canada's largest botanical garden, spanning Hamilton and Burlington, Ontario. Founded in 1941, it covers almost 1,100 hectares of gardens and nature sanctuaries.
Rucker Park
Rucker Park (Holcombe Rucker Park), Harlem, NYC, at 155th Street and Eighth Avenue; legendary streetball court, home of the Entertainers Basketball Classic, NBPA-refurbished Greg Marius Court, and 2025 National Commemorative Site.
Rwenzori Mountains National Park
Rwenzori Mountains National Park, Uganda's 99,600 ha World Heritage Site (1994) in the Rwenzori range, holds Mount Margherita (5,109 m), Africa's third highest peak, Albertine Rift endemic flora, and glaciers projected gone by 2030.
Sabah Agriculture Park
Sabah Agriculture Park (Taman Pertanian Sabah) is a 6 sq km botanical garden and research center at Lagud Seberang, Tenom, Sabah, founded 1981 as the Tenom Orchid Centre, holding over 350 wild orchid species; distinct from Sabah Agro Industrial Park.
Sable Island
Sable Island (Sable Island National Park Reserve) is a 42-km crescent of shifting sand 290 km southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada's 43rd national park since 2013, known for wild horses, grey seals, and over 350 shipwrecks.
Safari Park More
Safari Park More (Safari parks "More") is Latvia's first private deer garden, operating since 1995 at Saulstari, More parish, Sigulda district; 170 ha of red deer, fallow deer, and white deer, a 1.5 km hand-feeding trail, breeding farm, and guest house.
Sagadi Flower Garden
The Sagadi Flower Garden is the ornamental garden of Sagadi Manor in Sagadi village, Estonia, within Lahemaa National Park, featuring color-graded beds and nearly a hundred rose varieties.
Saguaro National Park
Saguaro National Park, near Tucson, Arizona, is a 1994 national park (monument since 1933) in two districts protecting over 2 million saguaro cacti across about 92,000 acres of Sonoran Desert.
Saguenay Fjord National Park
Saguenay Fjord National Park (Parc national du Fjord-du-Saguenay) is a Sépaq provincial park in Quebec, created in 1983, protecting both banks of the 100 km Saguenay Fjord across 328.6 km2, with hiking, sea kayaking, via ferrata, and beluga-focused marine protections.
Saint Philip Garden
Saint Philip Garden (Ġnien San Filippu, the General's Garden) is a 17th-century two-level public garden on St Philip Bastion in Floriana, Malta, with a citrus orchard, mature trees, the 1615 Wignacourt Fountain, and part of the Malta National Botanical Garden.
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument is a National Park Service unit near Mountainair, New Mexico, preserving three 17th-century Franciscan missions and pueblos at Abó, Quarai, and Gran Quivira, created from Gran Quivira National Monument (1909) and renamed in 1988.
San Antonio River Walk
The San Antonio River Walk, or Paseo del Rio, is a linear park along the San Antonio River in Texas, built as a WPA project in 1939–1941.
Sanghyowon Arboretum
Sanghyowon Arboretum (상효원, 上孝園), also called Sanghyowon Botanical Garden, is Jeju Island's first private arboretum in Sanghyo-dong, Seogwipo, founded by KC Cottrell chairman Lee Dal-woo, with 1,200 species, 16 themed gardens, a Gotjawal conservation area, and an annual March tulip festival.
Sangulmaceae flora
Sangulmaceae flora (桑榆科植物区) is a 0.6-hectare living collection of Moraceae and Ulmaceae trees, 9 genera and over 20 species, in the South Garden of the China National Botanical Garden, Beijing, featuring northern China native trees such as mulberries, elms, hackberry, zelkova, and Pteroceltis.
Sanjay Gandhi National Park
Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), formerly Borivali National Park, is a roughly 104 sq km urban protected forest in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, known for the 109 Kanheri Buddhist caves, high leopard density, and intense surrounding urban pressure.
São Paulo Botanical Garden
São Paulo Botanical Garden (Jardim Botânico de São Paulo), founded 1928 by Frederico Carlos Hoehne in Água Funda within Parque Estadual das Fontes do Ipiranga; state botanical research and conservation garden with Uppsala-inspired gardens, 1929 greenhouses, orchid nursery, and BGCI membership.
Saqr Public Park
Saqr Public Park (حديقة صقر العامّة) is a large family park in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, opened in 1991 by Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, with a lake, pedal boats, rides, and a skatepark.